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The IBM Corporation is founded
IBM is a information technology company -
the Ford Motor Company introduces the creation of the 40 hour work week
The Ford Motor Company proposed the idea in 1914, when it changed from a 48-hour to a 40-hour workweek after founder Henry Ford believed that too many hours were bad for workers. -
19th Amendment is ratified by Congress
“the rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex,” passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the states for ratification. -
The 18th Amendment goes into effect
Prohibited the manufacturing, transportation and sale of alcohol within the United States -
The Palmer Raids arrest and deport over 6,000 suspected ¨radicals¨
The administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected radical leftists, mostly Italian and Eastern European immigrants and especially anarchists and communists. -
League of Nations is founded
Provide a forum for resolving international disputes. -
Radio station KDKA airs first commercially broadcast program
Westinghouse Radio Station KDKA, 1920. Westinghouse Radio Station KDKA was a world pioneer of commercial radio broadcasting. Transmitting with a power of 100 watts on a wavelength of 360 meters, KDKA began scheduled programming with the Harding-Cox Presidential election -
Warren G. Harding is elected president
29th president from 1921 to 1923. -
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial concludes
The men were guilty of something—presumably the payroll murders. -
Readers Digest is founded
Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine. -
The Teapot Dome Scandal is uncovered
Warren G. Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil-reserve lands from the navy to the Department of the Interior in 1921, Fall secretly granted to Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome -
First game in the newly built Yankee Stadium is played
The first game at the new Yankee Stadium was a preseason exhibition game against the Chicago Cubs -
President Warren G. Harding dies
Died of a heart attack as 29th president -
Adolf Hitler leads a failed attempt to overthrow German government ( Beer Hall Putsch)
In the aftermath of the failed “putsch,” . Hitler was convicted of treason and sentenced to five years in prison -
Ellis Island closes as an immigration point to America
Processed 12 million immigrants there -
The National Origins act is passed limiting immigration
Restricted the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans and practically excluded Asians and other nonwhites from entry into the United States -
George Gerschwin releases ¨Rhaposidy in Blue¨
Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 musical composition by American composer George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band, -
The first Winter Olympics are held
At the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, where 16 countries gathered to compete in sports like figure skating, speed skating, hockey, curling and more between Jan. 25 and Feb. 5, 1924. -
Calvin Coolidge is elected president
30th President -
The Great Gatsby is published by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Referred to as the great American novel and talks about a man chasing the american dream and how it is an illusion -
Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. -
Scopes Monkey Trial begins in Dayton, TN
Tennessee court case that upheld a state law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools in that state. -
Langston Hughes publishes his first set of poems in his The Weary Blues
collection of poems by American poet Langston Hughes. Written in 1925, "The Weary Blues" was first published in the Urban League magazine, Opportunity. It was awarded the magazine's prize for best poem of the year. -
Gertrude Ederle is the first woman to swim the English Channel
American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in five events. On August 6, 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. -
The Great Mississippi flood displaces 700,000 peopl
The most destructive river flood in the history of the United States, with 27,000 square miles inundated up to a depth of 30 feet. -
Charles Lindbergh makes the first no-stop Trans-Atlantic flight
Raymond Orteig made a $25,000 prize for the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Paris or Paris to New York. -
Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs
Broke the record with NY Yankees -
The first film with sound ¨The Jazz Singer¨ debuts
Young Jakie Rabinowitz (Bobby Gordon) loves jazz and ragtime, and wants to be a performer. -
The Holland Tunnel connecting NJ and NYC opens
Tunnel the connects NJ to NYC under the Hudson River -
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
An uncovered Petri dish sitting next to an open window became contaminated with mold spores. So he isolated the mold spores and identified them as penicillin -
Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in the movie ¨Steamboat Willie¨
Mickey Mouse steers a steamboat down a river. He entertains his new passenger, Minnie, by playing music out of the menagerie on the boat. -
Chicago´s St. Valentine´s Day Massacre
Seven men from Bugs Moran´s mob were shot by Al Capone´s men dressed as police officers. -
Herbert Hoover is elected president
31st president of the United states during great depression -
Stock Market crashes on ´Black Tuesday´
Share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed, and became the start of the Great Depression. -
Amelia Earhart attempts to fly around the world
She flew to Hawaii with fellow pilot Paul Mantz to begin this flight. Earhart lost control of the plane on takeoff, however, and the plane had to be sent to the factory for repairs. In June, she went to Miami to again begin a flight around the world, this time with Fred Noonan as her navigator.
